Results for "Shawn Purcell"

Push The Limits

By Ben Patterson

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Push The Limits; Alternate Reality; Easter Waltz; Fear Is The Mind-Killer; Hope; Suits Me Fine; Almost There; Alone Time; Road Trip; Scoish.

Ben Patterson: Push The Limits

by Jack Bowers
April 14, 2021

It took no more than a quick Google search to find that every member of trombonist Ben Patterson's quintet is (or was) also a member of the U.S. Air Force's flagship jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note. On Push the Limits, Patterson challenges his fellow airmen to cruise through ten of his elaborate compositions and arrangements, ...

Push the Limits

April 4, 2021

Album: Push The Limits
By Ben Patterson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 10:09

Shawn Purcell

Shawn Purcell, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a jazz guitarist, educator, arranger, and composer in the Washington DC region.  Purcell has shared the stage, recorded with, and/or toured with top jazz artists including:  Terell Stafford, Nicholas Payton, Tim Warfield, Sean Jones, Brian Charette, Dana Hall, Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, The Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, Jim Pugh, Chip McNeill, Jeannie Bryson, Eddie Daniels, Chris Potter, Jerry Bergonzi, Steve Allee and many others.  He has performed at jazz clubs and festivals throughout the nation including: Blues Alley, Smalls, The Jazz Kitchen, The Blue Wisp, The Jazz Factory, Club Bonafide, Bop Stop, Filament at The Vanderelli Room, IAJE, JEN, PASIC and Indy Jazz Fest.

Purcell can be heard on nearly 30 recordings, including Grammy Award-winner Chip McNeill’s, The Whirl; Posi-Tone Records releases Heads Up! and Allied Forces, Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra’s Prime Time, featuring trumpeter Doc Severinsen, Darden Purcell’s Easy Living and Where the Blue Begins and Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra’s Vital Frequencies featuring saxophonist Chris Potter.
 

Symmetricity

By Shawn Purcell

Label: Armored Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Swirl; Steady Comin’ At Ya; Red Velvet Cake; A Bela; Symmetricity In The Linear Evolution; You, and You Alone, Missed It By An Inch; Here’s that Rainy Day; ‘Trane-ing Wheels; Norm’s View.

Shawn Purcell: Symmetricity

by Geannine Reid
December 25, 2019

Guitarist Shawn Purcell has enjoyed a busy career with 15 years as a member of the military Big Bands in Washington DC. From 1996-2004, he was the guitarist in the US Air Force premier jazz ensemble, The Airmen of Note. During his time with “The Note," Purcell performed throughout the world, including England, Germany, Turkey, Luxembourg, ...

Vital Frequencies featuring Chris Potter

By Ben Patterson

Label: Bonecat
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. Treachery 2. Inexorable 3. Home 4. To the TOP 5. Anxiously Awaiting 6. I Love You 7. My One and only Love 8. The Happy Dance 9. Que Tenga Sabor 10. Vital Frequencies

Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra: Prime Time

by Jack Bowers
October 26, 2015

Composer / arranger Alan Baylock seems to have a penchant for time. Prime Time is the Baylock Jazz Orchestra's third album, following Two Seconds to Midnight (2003) and Eastern Standard Time (2008). This time (no pun intended), Baylock, who doubles as chief arranger for the U.S. Air Force's premier jazz ensemble, the Airmen of Note, has ...

Four From The Posi-Tone Pile

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2014

Some labels release a few records a year; some put out a record every month or two; and then there are those, like the Los Angeles-based Posi-Tone Records, that prefer to push even more music through the pipeline. As 2014 came into being, Posi-Tone began an ambitious release schedule, putting out a new ...